The op-ed highlights persistent gaps in gMG diagnosis, treatment, and access. It outlines the socio-economic burden and the need to optimise care pathways in this disorder and the broader rare ...

Ocular myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune condition affecting the muscles surrounding and involving the eyes. Symptoms can include double vision, droopy eyelids, and more. Ocular myasthenia gravis ...

Myasthenia gravis is a rare neuromuscular disease in which the voluntary muscles quickly become tired and weak as a result of dysfunction with nerve and muscle communication. Myasthenia gravis (MG) is ...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) has been treatable for nearly 100 years. In 1934, the Scottish doctor Mary Broadfoot Walker, MD, discovered that the drug physostigmine improved muscle function in people with ...

Myasthenia gravis is a chronic autoimmune disorder that inhibits communication between nerve cells and muscles, causing muscle weakness. It has no cure, but several treatment options can help improve ...

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It’s a lifelong autoimmune neuromuscular disease. It causes certain muscles to weaken easily after you use them. Muscle fatigue typically varies throughout the day (sometimes hour by hour) and gets ...

Five therapies are currently approved by the FDA for treating the symptoms of myasthenia gravis, allowing partial to complete remission. Research suggests that five new therapies may become available ...

Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease in which antibodies bind to acetylcholine receptors or to functionally related molecules in the postsynaptic membrane at the neuromuscular junction. The ...